Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Euston Grove Press. After the Great Exhibition in 1851, the famous Crystal Palace was dismantled, then moved to Sydenham. The glasshouse was expanded and set within a beautiful 200 acre, fountain-filled pleasure park. It re-opened in 1854. The Crystal Palace Company published a series of guides – official handbooks – describing the park’s themed courts, special features, and art and sculpture galleries. These helped visitors interpret key features. They also provided background information. The effect was to add an air of authenticity to the visitor’s experience.

Euston Grove Press is working to reproduce all 15 of the guides published to support visitors in Crystal Palace and Park. Our “Crystal Palace Guides” offers facsimiles of the original handbooks.

For detailed information on the “Crystal Palace Guides” page.


Series	Author	Title	ISBN
Crystal Palace Guide 1	Samuel Phillips	Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park	9781906267094
Crystal Palace Guide 2	Samuel Phillips	Portrait Gallery of the Crystal Palace	9781906267100
Crystal Palace Guide 3	Owen Jones	Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace	9781906267063
Crystal Palace Guide 4	Matthew Digby Wyatt and John Burley Waring	Byzantine and Romanesque Court in the Crystal Palace	9781906267131
Crystal Palace Guide 5	Owen Jones and Joseph Bonomi	Description of the Egyptian Court in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 6	George Scharf and Owen Jones	Greek Court Erected in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 7	Matthew Digby Wyatt and John Burley Waring	Italian Court in the Crystal Palace	9781906267155
Crystal Palace Guide 8	Matthew Digby Wyatt and John Burley Waring	Mediæval Court in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 9	Austen Henry Layard	Nineveh Court in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 10	George Scharf	Pompeian Court in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 11	Matthew Digby Wyatt and John Burley Waring	Renaissance Court in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 12	George Scharf and Owen Jones	Roman Court … Erected in the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Guide 13	Robert Gordon Latham and Edward Forbes	Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described. Part 1: Ethnology. Part 2: Zoology and Botany	9781906267223
Crystal Palace Guide 14	Anna B. Jameson	Handbook to the Courts of Modern Sculpture	9781906267117
Crystal Palace Guide 15	Richard Owen	Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World	9781906267360
Crystal Palace Guide 16	Owen Jones	Apology for the Colouring of the Greek Court in the Crystal Palace
	[no author identified]	Industrial Directory of the Crystal Palace
advertised but not published	Raffaele Monti	How to See the Sculpture in the Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace and Park during the 19thC

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871

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Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Crystal Palace Guide 15) | EGP

Richard Owen’s original guide to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and displayed in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, London since 1854. These life-sized sculptures of prehistoric “monsters” included dinosaurs, mammals, marine reptiles, […]

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Natural History Department: Ethnology, Zoology, Botany (Crystal Palace Guide 13) | EGP

The “Natural History Court” had two organising themes. First, ethnology – a speciality in anthropology emphasising comparisons between human cultures – was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups […]